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TikTok CEO calls for stronger safeguards against AI cybersecurity risks
TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi spoke about artificial intelligence risks at a conference in Singapore.
He said people may give AI agents permission to act without understanding what they have allowed, such as making purchases with a credit card.
AI agents carry out tasks, while chatbots such as ChatGPT mainly answer questions.
Chew said these tools have also made it cheaper for businesses to create spam, so companies need effective ways to defend their platforms.
He urged people to learn by using AI and said employees should not put trade secrets or private legal information into public chatbots.
Chew said AI’s effects may be overstated in the short term but underestimated over the longer term.
He expects AI to contribute to a scientific breakthrough within the next two to three years, but said it is too early to know whether AI will replace people.
TikTok chief executive Chew Shou Zi called for a better understanding of how to manage artificial intelligence risks, including cybersecurity threats.
Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward conference in Singapore on Oct 12, he said people may give AI agents permissions without understanding what they allow.
Chew said businesses need tools to defend against the falling cost of creating security problems and spam.
He also urged people to gain hands-on experience with AI and said employees should be trained not to share confidential information with public chatbots.
- Who
- TikTok chief executive Chew Shou Zi.
- What
- He called for better understanding and management of AI risks, especially cybersecurity risks.
- When
- Monday, Oct 12, 2026.
- Where
- A dialogue at the DBS Asia Future Forward conference in Singapore.
- Why
- AI agents can create cybersecurity risks when users grant permissions they do not understand, and AI has lowered the cost of creating spam.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
I think the cybersecurity risks are quite real,
a lot of education
make it too expensive for people to do too much spam on your platform
If you don’t use these models and you don’t use these products yourself, you cannot figure out what exactly you can or cannot do just by reading about it,
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- Speaker
- Chew Shou Zi
- Conference
- DBS Asia Future Forward
- Location
- Singapore
- Date
- Oct 12, 2026
- Platform users
- About 2.21 billion worldwide
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